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For us, the human practice part and bioethics in general are one of the most important bricks in sciences. To increase the acceptance of the society, scientists, junior scientists and politicians have to work together to improve the knowledge and the acceptance for the Synthetic Biology. The iGEM Potsdam Bioware 2012 agree with the statement that every scientist has the duty to inform the people about the advantages and risks of their work to advance public discourse.<br> | For us, the human practice part and bioethics in general are one of the most important bricks in sciences. To increase the acceptance of the society, scientists, junior scientists and politicians have to work together to improve the knowledge and the acceptance for the Synthetic Biology. The iGEM Potsdam Bioware 2012 agree with the statement that every scientist has the duty to inform the people about the advantages and risks of their work to advance public discourse.<br> | ||
| - | Especially, Synthetic Biology is often discussed controversially. One reason for these controversial discussions is a missing definition. That is a very important basis for discussion with politicians and citizens. Therefore, we | + | Especially, Synthetic Biology is often discussed controversially. One reason for these controversial discussions is a missing definition. That is a very important basis for discussion with politicians and citizens. Therefore, we use an own definition for Synthetic Biology:<br><br> |
''Synthetic Biology is the molecular reprogramming of organisms. The aim is to create organisms with other features which are not discovered in this combination in nature.''<br><br> | ''Synthetic Biology is the molecular reprogramming of organisms. The aim is to create organisms with other features which are not discovered in this combination in nature.''<br><br> | ||
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SocialBrick
For us, the human practice part and bioethics in general are one of the most important bricks in sciences. To increase the acceptance of the society, scientists, junior scientists and politicians have to work together to improve the knowledge and the acceptance for the Synthetic Biology. The iGEM Potsdam Bioware 2012 agree with the statement that every scientist has the duty to inform the people about the advantages and risks of their work to advance public discourse.
Especially, Synthetic Biology is often discussed controversially. One reason for these controversial discussions is a missing definition. That is a very important basis for discussion with politicians and citizens. Therefore, we use an own definition for Synthetic Biology:
Synthetic Biology is the molecular reprogramming of organisms. The aim is to create organisms with other features which are not discovered in this combination in nature.
To sum up all the human practice activities, we developed a term to describe the different human practice activities this year: the SocialBrick. The concept of SocialBrick is to divide every human practice activity in different parts to inform the people about Synthetic Biology in every part of the society. We hope that the term SocialBrick is listed in a registry in the future to show citizens what every team has done for elucidation.
In this year, we focused on two SocialBricks: “Science meets Politics” and “Science meets People”. For “Science meets Politics” we interviewed members of the German Bundestag for discussing about Synthetic Biology. For the latter one, “Science meets people”, we developed a survey to ask for the knowledge of Synthetic Biology and to inform the people about this topic.
